S.Amdt. 2511

SA 2511. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle E of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 750. GRANT PROGRAM FOR INCREASED COOPERATION ON POST-
TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER RESEARCH BETWEEN
UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL.

(a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that
the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Psychological
Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program, should
seek to explore scientific collaboration between academic
institutions and nonprofit research entities in the United
States and institutions in Israel with expertise in
researching, diagnosing, and treating post-traumatic stress
disorder.
(b) Grant Program.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense, in coordination
with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of
State, shall award grants to eligible entities to carry out
collaborative research between the United States and Israel
with respect to post-traumatic stress disorders.
(2) Agreement.--The Secretary of Defense shall carry out
the grant program under this section in accordance with the
Agreement on the United States-Israel binational science
foundation with exchange of letters, signed at New York
September 27, 1972, and entered into force on September 27,
1972.
(c) Eligible Entities.--To be eligible to receive a grant
under this section, an entity shall be an academic
institution or a nonprofit entity located in the United
States.
(d) Award.--The Secretary shall award grants under this
section to eligible entities that--
(1) carry out a research project that--
(A) addresses a requirement in the area of post-traumatic
stress disorders that the Secretary determines appropriate to
research using such grant; and
(B) is conducted by the eligible entity and an entity in
Israel under a joint research agreement; and
(2) meet such other criteria that the Secretary may
establish.
(e) Application.--To be eligible to receive a grant under
this section, an eligible entity shall submit an application
to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing
such commitments and information as the Secretary may
require.
(f) Gift Authority.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary may accept, hold, and
administer any gift of money made on the condition that the
gift be used for the purpose of the grant program under this
section.
(2) Deposit.--Gifts of money accepted under paragraph (1)
shall be deposited in the Treasury in the Department of
Defense General Gift Fund and shall be available, subject to
appropriation, without fiscal year limitation.
(g) Reports.--Not later than 180 days after the date on
which an eligible entity completes a research project using a
grant under this section, the Secretary shall submit to
Congress a report that contains--
(1) a description of how the eligible entity used the
grant; and
(2) an evaluation of the level of success of the research
project.
(h) Termination.--The authority to award grants under this
section shall terminate on the date that is seven years after
the date on which the first such grant is awarded.
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